US Basketball Team Set

Blah Blah Blah we all know who’s on the team and we can sit here and talk about what bubble player should of made it, especially since there wasn’t even a try-out.
It really doesn’t matter when you have Kobe, BronBron, Melo and the Fundamental Bore that are gonna rack up at least 35 minutes if [...]

Ball Hockey

This will be the first post on the Sports Corner that has to do with grass-roots sports, and with developing young children.
Before You read anything, read this quote by Wayne Gretzky.
“If sport has a high point of the year, it must be the first week of spring.” “…When I was growing up, I used to [...]

Gillis was right

Before Nonis got canned, it did feel nice to hear him say how close the Canucks were to being an elite contender in the league, as long as everyone was healthy. And I believed him, too.
Last season they did look like a contender, winning the division, winning a tight series against Dallas and amounting the [...]

Heat Comes From the Sun - Shaq to Suns, Marion to Miami

We thought we saw the biggest trade of the season when the Lakers picked up Pau Gasol for Kwame Brown, a prospect and a draft pick. But folks, they ain’t gonna get much bigger than this.
We don’t need to get into the stats, we all know what Shaq’s done and we all know what Marion [...]

TSC NBA Midseason Awards

As the NBA season reaches its midway point, it’s time to hand out some midseason awards. 

Defensive Player of the Year: Kevin Garnett (Boston Celtics)
As some witty sportswriter predicted on this very website, the Boston Celtics are a very, very good team. They are so good that when they slipped to 34-6, there were some talks [...]

Half-Way There

Young Canucks fans need to realize that they are lucky, and shouldn’t take this Vancouver squad for granted.
I’m going to throw this out there. There have been three Canuck teams that have been legitimate cup contenders, and this is one of them.
Now at the half-way point of the season, this newly-clothed team is drawing honourable [...]

Here’s Your Reason to Watch College Basketball

Gardner-Webb University, an unknown school when it comes to NCAA hoops, just knocked off Kentucky by a score of 84-68, and led the entire way through, leaving Rupp Arena in complete and utter shock and putting Billie Gillespie’s job in serious jeopardy.
It’s just not supposed to go down like that. Big schools beat small schools [...]

Scott’s Thoughts

Ed Willes has his, I have mine.

I’m really glad I didn’t watch the Seahawks’ blow a 21-3 lead to Cleveland, thank you Colts and Patriots for not subjecting me to that ridiculousness, and actually letting me watch a good football game.
Apparently the GMs in the NFL that had the top five picks in the [...]

Humming the Wrong Tune in Toronto

It was two years before the Toronto Maple Leafs won their last Stanley cup when the Mamas and the Papas released their hit song California Dreamin’ in 1965. Little did they know, that song would be about those Leafs for the next forty years.
The first lyric in the song relates to the fall in Toronto, [...]

The Vigneault of Old

Alain Vigneault ripped into four of his top players yesterday, telling the wonder twins that they need to produce more offensively, and defencemen Willie Mitchell and Kevin Bieksa need to tighten it up at the back end.
This was all over Sportsnet last night and the headlines in the Sun and the Province this morning, [...]

Thoughts of the Day

Yesterday was the first day in the existence of TSC that we went post-less. We apologize, but we were busy - mostly covering our school’s soccer provincials, where they took home the bronze medal. We even got to see a small donnybrook, nice to see in a soccer game.
Here are some thoughts from the past [...]

Confidence is Key

Watching Ryan Kesler play right now against Washington and the past few games after his two goal “outbreak” against Columbus, there’s something about his game that we haven’t seen until now.
Sure, he’s always been a good forechecker, kills penalties and drops the gloves once in a while, but he wasn’t drafted for that, he was [...]

Quick Fact of the Day

If the Canucks are able to pick up a win against the red hot Hurricanes, it will be their fourth straight road win of the season, leaving them undefeated away from the Garage.
The last time the Canucks won their first four road games of the year was back in the 1993-94 season.
We all know what [...]

Canucks Need to be Healthy for November

In any normal regular season schedules, teams need to be healthy down the stretch of the last 12 or so games of the season in order to make the playoffs, or gain momentum going into the playoffs.
This is not the case for the Canucks. When looking for the most important part of the Canucks season [...]

Quick Fact of the Day

Why is the world’s most popular sports drink called Gatorade? Simple.
Try playing Divison 1A NCAA football in Gainesville, Florida, one of the hottest places on earth where football is actually played.
When playing in the extreme heat, water isn’t good enough, so the University of Florida got it’s scientists to create a drink that was better [...]